Division of Education, Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea.
Department of Psychology and Population Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2022 Apr;51(4):792-804. doi: 10.1007/s10964-022-01583-8. Epub 2022 Feb 21.
Individuals develop diverse social attitudes during adolescence. This study focused on adolescents' cooperative and competitive attitudes from grades 7-11 and their outcomes in grade 12. The sample included 6,908 South Korean adolescents (47.6% girls, mean age = 12.83, range = 12-15). Latent cross-lagged models revealed negative directional associations between cooperative and compet itive attitudes for grades 7-10, but no significant associations for grades 10-11. Cooperative attitudes contributed more to social than academic outcomes, whereas competitive attitudes more positively predicted academic outcomes. The results suggest that educators who support early to mid-adolescents' cooperative or competitive attitudes need to strike a delicate balance as these attitudes do not change independently and both have distinct strengths and weaknesses.
个体在青春期发展出多样化的社会态度。本研究聚焦于 7 至 11 年级青少年的合作和竞争态度及其 12 年级的结果。样本包括 6908 名韩国青少年（47.6%为女生，平均年龄=12.83 岁，范围为 12-15 岁）。潜在交叉滞后模型显示，7 至 10 年级的合作和竞争态度之间呈负向的定向关联，但 10 至 11 年级之间没有显著关联。合作态度对社会结果的贡献大于学业结果，而竞争态度更能正向预测学业结果。研究结果表明，教育者在支持青少年早期到中期的合作或竞争态度时需要保持微妙的平衡，因为这些态度不是独立变化的，它们都有各自的优势和劣势。
